Based on the downward trends in this chart, is it any wonder that I am bearish?

Despite the growing popularity of electronic commerce, the impact of online shopping on the employment of retail salespersons is expected to be minimal. Internet sales have not decreased the need for retail salespersons.

And if you believe that then please consider investing in this wonderfulopportunity. You simply can't lose!

Does anyone from the BLS live in America? Have they not been in a supermarket or big box with self check-out? Tried to find retail help and ended up asking other customers until somebody fessed up that they actually worked there?Scanned aisle after aisle until they found a delivery person who might know something? Don't know anyone who shops online to avoid local sales taxes? Notice the empty retail in strip malls?Reminds me of old George Bush shocked by supermarket scanners 20 years ago. Clueless.

Mark,they were rhetorical, but they express my frustration with optimism from the BLS re retail employment.I live on the West Side of Manhattan, which is nominally holding up compared to the rest of the country, and yet Broadway in the West 80s-is dotted with empty retail. At big box stores, self-checkout continues toeliminate jobs. And in NYC, with fewer car owners than anywhere, online retail for everything, including groceries, is a way of life. And avoiding sales taxes via internet buying...enough said.

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